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...buried with full honors by the W. C. T. U. and the Ku Klux Klan, of which she was a member. Six masked Klansmen in regalia were her pallbearers...
...trunks and closets and hoodmakers' shops, last week, came bright regalia. There was brushing of gowns and pressing of hems, dusting of tassels and fitting on of mortarboards. When U. S. pedagogy, its apostles, disciples and the honored stranger within its gates, takes the platform, this month, to set seals and make distinctions, how shall the colors of its pomp be read...
...happened last week that the Bolshevik Ambassador Leonid Krassin gave a dinner at the Russian Embassy for his colleague, M. Herbette, French Ambassador-designate to Russia. M. Herbette pondered long over his dress. Should it be corduroy pants, a flannel shirt and a shoddy coat? Or the capitalistic regalia of full evening dress? Inquiries, discreetly made, revealed that the sombre black and white of evening dress would be worn. But still, the reception and dinner would be a simple affair, for the Bolsheviki are noted for their Spartan simplicity...
...have never met a kindly old man, if you have never seen the village band in full regalia, with Fezes and substantial "cuds", if you've never heard a farm-hand quartet around the old oaken bucket, nor seen simple Uncle Josh cavorting in a palatial New York Mansion, if you don't believe that "ridin" over the New Hampshire Hills is better than a Turkish bath, or if you haven't stamped or clapped at a Virginia Reel in the kitchen of the farm, if you haven't seen and heard and done all the things that...
...wildest riding buckaroos that ever forked a Texas bronco right here in New Orleans." -(New Orleans Item, in a story on an American Legion rodeo.) " State's Attorney Crowe and his staff of picked assistants, assigned to prosecute the murderers of little Bobby Franks, jumped into their fighting regalia last night and launched a double-fisted attack upon the defense." -Chicago Tribune. " There is one bootlegger in Oakland who will think twice hereafter before he calls prospective customers on the telephone. " Chief McSorley answered his private telephone yesterday and was dumbfounded when a voice asked if he wanted those...